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Which countries had TV in the 1950s? More than you may think! |
I know the following had TV operations either begin before the 1950s or had TV operations begin during the decade, based on my 15 minutes of research:
US
UK
Canada
Mexico
West Germany (also, Nazi Germany had TV in the 1930s. Some of the 1930s programming was produced on 35mm nitrate film and some of that 35mm film still exists)
Sweden
Australia
Japan (wonder if any kinescopes remain of Japanese TV of the era)
Brazil
Italy
Soviet Union (I think..Wikipedia is a bit unclear on this..)
Netherlands
Denmark
Venezuela (who got TV before Australia, Sweden *and* Japan. Figure that out)
Belgium
France (they got TV in the 1930s!)
Spain
And there are also others. So, despite what many may think, television spread very quickly around the world in the post-WW2 era. 1950s TV wasn't an "American-only" thing, nor was it restricted to the western world.
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Re: I don't think anyone cares, but here's the schedules for first week of Melbourne TV |
Using old digitised editions of defunct newspaper "The Argus" as a source, I've tried to gather the information of first week of programming of Melbourne's first TV station. Sydney had been broadcasting earlier (and had their own shows too), but I am unable to find any Sydney schedules for this period.
Note: Nobody in Australia still refers to stations by their call-sign. HSV-7 is usually referred to Channel 7, etc etc. Few people even know the callsigns these days. But in early TV listings (and credits of programmes) their callsigns were considered important.
On the schedule are some early Australian TV series.
Information on those series:
"The Judy Jack Show": Children's series, live-action, starring the pretty Judy Jack;
"Hit Parade": Dancers danced to and lip-synced hit recordings of the week. Over a dozen later episodes from 1957 and 1958 still exist;
"Stairway to the Stars": Talent show;
"Peter's Fun Fair": Live-action children's series starring two men named Zig and Zag;
"I've Got a Secret": Panel game, based on US series of same name;
"Eric and Mary": informal programme with guests;
"Stop the Music": Game show
"Wedding Day": Game show in which the contestants were newlyweds.
As you might have guessed, these simple series were very much like those broadcast on local TV on US stations. It wasn't until 1958 that Australian series could really compete with US series in terms of variety shows.
One must remember that, at the time, Australia only produced an average of 2 or 3 feature films a year. That's part of the reason why Australian TV drama did not begin until ABC (then-Australian Broadcasting Commission, later Australian Broadcasting Corporation) started broadcasting a few one-off plays in 1957. There was very little experience in local drama. Indeed, the first Australian regular dramatic series, "Autumn Affair" (1958-1959), was produced mainly for the purpose of getting that experience. Mistakes were made. Lessons were learned. That series is, strangely, the only daytime soap opera of the 1950s for which nearly all episodes still exist, but they are not available online.
Series are marked by country of origin, unless not known.
There were two days for which I could not locate the schedule info.
4 November 1956 (information in the newspaper is a bit sketchy)
7:00PM - Opening Ceremony
7:15PM - Variety show from the Tivoli (Aus)
8:00PM - "The Adventures of Robin Hood" (UK)
8:30PM - "I've Got a Secret" (Aus)
9:00PM - "Our Miss Brooks" (US)
9:30PM - "World News Round-Up" (??)
10:00PM - Preview of future TV programmes
10:15PM - News and weather
5 November 1956:
6:00PM - "The Judy Jack Show" (Aus)
6:30PM - "Annie Oakley" (US)
7:00PM - News and Weather
7:15PM - "The Patti Page Show" (US)
7:30PM - "Hopalong Cassidy" (US)
8:00PM - "Whitehall Theatre" (re-titled US anthology) (US)
8:30PM - "International Theatre" (? Maybe a film?)
10:00PM - News and Weather
6 November 1956:
??
7 November 1956:
6:00PM - "The Judy Jack Show" (Aus)
6:30PM - "Comedy Time" (??)
7:00PM - News
7:10PM - Weather
7:15PM - "Eric and Mary" (Aus)
7:30PM - "Rin Tin Tin" (US)
8:00PM - "Doctor's Downfall" (an episode of "Ford Television Theatre" (US)
8:30PM - "The Dark Lake" (an episode of "Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Presents") (UK/US)
9:00PM - "Stop the Music" (Aus)
9:30PM - News and weather
8 November 1956:
6:00PM - "The Judy Jack Show" (Aus)
6:30PM - "Tales of the Texas Rangers" (US)
7:00PM - News and Weather
7:30PM - "The Great Gildersleeve" (US)
8:00PM - "Big Town" (US)
8:30PM - "Theatre Royal" (aka "Lilli Palmer Theatre") (UK/US)
9:30PM - "Your Hit Parade" (Aus)
9:30PM - News and Weather
9:45PM - Station close
9 November 1956:
6:00PM - "The Judy Jack Show" (Aus)
6:30PM - "Jungle Jim" (US)
7:00PM - News and Weather
7:15PM - "Sports Talk" (??)
7:30PM - "Surprise Package" (??)
8:00PM - "Celebrity Theatre" (US)
8:30PM - "Douglas Fairbanks, Jr, Presents" (UK/US)
9:00PM - "Stairway to the Stars" (Aus)
9:30PM - News
10 November 1956:
6:00PM - "Peter's Fun Fair" (Aus)
6:30PM - "Hopalong Cassidy" (US)
7:00PM - News and Weather
7:15PM - "Kiernan's Kaleidoscope" (US)
7:30PM - "Grantland Rice" (US)
7:45PM - "Sports Thrills" (US) (Argus newspaper lists the two as seperate series)
8:00PM - "The Scarlet Pimpernel" (UK)
8:30PM - "Racket Squad" (US)
9:00PM - "Wedding Day" (Aus)
9:30PM - News and Weather
11 November 1956:
??
Within weeks the station debuted two other Australian series, both of which aired in 15-minute time-slots after the news: "The Isador Goodman Show" (he played popular music on the piano, sometimes with a guest vocalist), and "Guest of the Week" (likely a talk show). Within 4 weeks came a 30-minute game show titled "Fun with Charades", similar in format to US series "Pantomime Quiz". Public broadcaster ABV-2 began broadcasting on 19 November 1956. I have yet to do any research on their programming in 1956.
If anyone wants, I can post HSV-7 schedules for 13 November 1956 to 31 December 1956, to give you an idea of which American series were imported in those early days of Australian TV, as well as an idea of how the olympics were covered.
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Re: WABD-TV (DuMont flagship station) 13 January 1954 |
I don't know what aired in daytime (I think the station had scaled back its daytime operations, though I might be wrong on this), but here is WABD-TV's schedule for 13 January 1954
12:00PM - "Food for Thought"
12:30PM - "Movie Quick Quiz"
1:00PM - "The Claire Mann Show"
1:30PM - "Miggles"
2:00PM - "Love Story"
3:00PM - "The Paul Dixon Show"
4:00PM - "Documentary Theater"
4:30PM - News
4:45PM - "Adventures of Danny Dee"
5:00PM - "Ken Carson in Saddle Scouts"
6:00PM - "The Magic Cottage"
7:00PM - "Captain Video and His Video Rangers"
7:15PM - "Marge and Jeff"
7:30PM - Weather and news
7:45PM - "Sports Desk"
8:00PM - "The Johns Hopkins Science Review" (episode title: "Plastic Surgery Today")
8:30PM - "Chicago Symphony Orchestra"
9:30PM - "On Your Way"
10:00PM - "Stars on Parade"
10:30PM - "The Music Show"
11:00PM - "Barry Gray"
11:15PM - "Half Hour Theater" (episode title: "White Violet")
11:45PM - News
"The Johns Hopkins Science Review" and "Marge and Jeff" episodes are extant, but not available.
An episode of "On Your Way", possibly the episode mentioned on the schedule, can be downloaded from this website:
http://archive.org/details/onYourWay1954I hope someone finds this post to be interesting.
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Re: Miami TV schedules (WTVJ) for the week from December 6 1953 to December 12 1953 |
These listings are for the Miami station WTVJ (channel 4), which was a so-called "CBS affiliate" which also carried programming from other networks ("Your Hit Parade", "Life is Worth Living") and syndicated shows. Some of the days appear to be missing daytime listings... Back then, Miami only had one viable station (two other stations are listed in the newspaper, WITV on Channel 17 and WFTL on Channel 23. Both were poorly-watched UHF), so the schedule is very unusual and different.
The listings (missing daytime for several days) are taken from newspaper The Miami Daily News, are accompanied by a lot short-hand, confusing wording and a few spelling errors courtesy of the newspaper itself ("Gary Moore"...really? They list the second half of "Dollar a Second" as "Second - Jessel"), which I repeat here for historical purposes, along with my own poor spelling and any additonal errors I might have accidentally made (forgive me if I list two shows as started at the same time, for example). However, in some cases the station did indeed show only the first half or second half of a show. If you watch some of the old kinescopes on this site, you see them mentioning that in live daytime shows. Additional info (such as episode titles) are provided by the "TV Highlights" section in the newspaper.
Sunday December 6, 1953
9:30AM - "News - Music"
9:45AM - "Pastors Study"
10:00AM - "Billy Graham"
10:15AM- "What's Trouble?"
10:30AM - "Frontiers of Faith"
11:00AM - "This is the Life"
11:30AM - "Juvenile Jury"
12:00PM - "Sunday School"
12:30PM - "Uncle Bob"
1:00PM - "UM Review"
1:30PM - "You Are There" (according to the TV highlights section, episode was about "Lincoln's Gettysburg Address")
2:00PM - "Bears - Lions"
4:30PM - "Mr. Peepers"
5:00PM - "Omnibus"
6:30PM - "Preacher Rollo"
6:45PM - "Renick Reporting"
7:00PM - "Paul Winchell" (aka "The Paul Winchell Show")
7:30PM - "Jack Benny" (aka "The Jack Benny Program"
8:00PM - "Comedy Hour" (aka "The Colgate Comedy Hour"
9:00PM - "TV Theater" (aka "General Electric Theater", according to TV highlights section it was episode "The Marriage Fix" with Jack Caron)
10:00PM - "TV Playhouse"
11:00PM - "Don Hollenbeck"
11:15PM - Bonino"
11:45PM - Sign-off
Monday December 7, 1953:
7:00AM - "Garroway Today" (aka "The Today Show")
9:00AM - "Ding Dong School"
9:30AM - "Strike it Rich"
10:00AM - "Little Show"
10:15AM - "Valiant Lady"
10:30AM - "I'll Buy That"
10:45AM - "Industry on Parade"
11:00AM - "Arthur Godfrey" (I wasn't alive then, so which of the fifty million different Godfrey series was it?)
11:30AM - "Menu Magic":
12:00PM - News - Buys
12:15PM - "Love of Life"
12:30PM - "Search for Tom'w" (aka "Search for Tomorrow")
12:45PM - "Guiding Light"
1:00PM - "Brunch with Judy"
1:30PM - "Garry Moore"
2:00PM - "Cobb's Corner"
2:30PM - "Jackie's House"
3:00PM - "Big Payoff"
3:30PM - "Kate Smith" (aka "The Kate Smith Hour")
4:00PM - "Alec Gibson" (
5:00PM - "Glenn & Mickey"
5:15PM - "Cisco Kid"
5:45PM - "Shopper's Guide"
6:00PM - "Emergency - Weath."
6:15PM - "Jack of All Sports"
6:30PM - "Armchair Adventure"
6:45PM - "Renick Reporting"
7:00PM - "This Your Life" (aka "This is Your Life")
7:30PM - "Doug Edwards" (aka "Douglas Edwards with the News")
7:45PM - "Little Theater"
8:00PM - "Burns & Allen" (aka "The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show")
8:30PM - "Firestone Hour"
9:00PM - "I Love Lucy"
9:30PM - "Favourite Story"
10:00PM - "Studio One"
11:00PM - News - Weather
11:15PM - "Man Behind Badge"
11:45PM - Sign off
Tuesday December 8, 1953:
4:00PM - "Pres. Eisenhower"
4:45PM - "Joe DiMaggio"
5:00PM - "Glenn & Mickey"
5:15PM - "Wild Bill Hickock"
5:45PM - "Shopper's Guide"
6:00PM - "Marines - Weath."
6:15PM - "Jack of All Sports"
6:30PM - "Modern Living"
6:45PM - "Renick Reporting"
7:00PM - "Bishop Sheen" (aka "Life is Worth Living", episode title "How to give a Talk")
7:30PM - "Doug Edwards" (aka "Douglas Edwards with the News")
7:45PM - "Startime"
8:00PM - "Milton Berle" (aka "The Buick-Berle Show")
9:00PM - "Fireside Theater" (episode title: "The Boy Down the Road")
9:30PM - "Red Buttons" (aka "The Red Buttons Show")
10:00PM - "Danger" (episode title: "The Man with the Gun")
10:30PM - "I Led 3 Lives"
11:00PM - News - Weather
11:15PM - "TV Theater" (aka "Ford Television Theatre", episode title: "Kiss and Forget")
11:45PM - "Martin Kane" (aka "Martin Kane, Private Eye")
Midnight - Close
Wednesday 9 December, 1953
7:00AM - "Garroway Today" (aka "The Today Show")
9:00AM - "Ding Dong School"
9:30AM - "Strike it Rich"
10:00AM - "Little Show"
10:15AM - "Valiant Lady"
10:30AM - "I'll Buy That"
10:45AM - "Industry on Parade"
11:00AM - "Arthur Godfrey"
11:30AM - "Menu Magic"
12:00PM - News - Buys
12:15PM - "Love of Life"
12:30PM - "Search for T'row" (aka "Search for Tomorrow")
12:45PM - "Guiding Light"
1:00PM - "Brunch with Judy"
1:30PM - "Garry Moore"
2:00PM - "Cobb's Corner"
2:30PM - "Jackie's House"
3:00PM - "Big Payoff"
3:30PM - "Kate Smith" (aka "The Kate Smith Show")
4:00PM - "Alec Gibson"
5:00PM - "Glenn & Mickey"
5:15PM - To be announced
5:30PM - To be announced
5:45PM - "Shopper's Guide"
6:00PM - Safety - Weather
6:15PM - "Jack of All Sports"
6:30PM - "This is Story" (??)
6:45PM - "Renick Reporting"
7:00PM - "Ozzie and Harriet" (aka "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet"
7:30PM - "Doug Edwards" (aka "Douglas Edwards with the News")
7:45PM - "Eddie Fisher" (aka "Coke Time with Eddie Fisher")
8:00PM - "Arthur Godfrey" (he sure did appear on TV a lot)
9:00PM - "Lee Dickens"
9:15PM - "Law of Land"
9:30PM - "Caval. America" (aka "Cavalcade of America")
10:00PM - Boxing
10:45PM - "Greatest Fights"
11:00PM - News - Weather
11:15PM - "Name's Same" (aka "The Name's the Same")
11:45PM - "Dollar a Second"
Thursday December 10, 1953
4:00PM - "Alec Gibson"
5:00PM - "Glenn & Mickey"
5:15PM - "Sky King"
5:45PM - "Shopper's Guide"
6:00PM - Science - Weather
6:15PM - "Jack of All Sports"
6:30PM - "Charlie Farrell"
6:45PM - "Renick Reporting"
7:00PM - "Liberace"
7:30PM - "Doug Edwards" ("Doug Edwards with the News")
7:45PM - "Gems of Music"
8:00PM - "Touchdown"
8:30PM - "What's the Story"
9:00PM - "Dragnet"
9:30PM - "What's My Line"
10:00PM - "Toast of the Town"
11:00PM - News - Weather
11:15PM - "The Web" (episode title: "Scrap")
11:45PM - Sign Off
Friday December 11, 1953
WTVJ:
7:00AM - "Garroway Today" (aka "Today Show")
9:00AM - "Ding Dong School"
9:30PM - "Strike it Rich"
10:00AM - "Little Show"
10:15AM - "Valiant Lady"
10:30AM - "Dione Lucas" (wikipedia says this was titled "The Dione Lucas Cooking Show")
11:00AM - "Wheel of Fortune"
11:30AM - '"Menu Magic"
12:00PM - News - Buys
12:15PM - "Love of Life"
12:30PM - "Search for T'row" (aka "Search for Tomorrow")
12:45PM - "Guiding Light"
1:00PM - "Brunch with Judy"
1:30PM - "Gary Moore" (yes, they spell it as "Gary", they likely meant Garry Moore)
2:00PM - "Cobb's Corner"
2:30PM - "Jackie's House"
3:00PM - "Big Payoff"
3:30PM - "Kate Smith" (aka "The Kate Smith Show")
4:00PM - "Alec Gibson"
5:00PM - "Glenn & Mickey"
5:15PM - "Superman"
5:45PM - "Shopper's Guide"
6:00PM - "Com. Chest-Wearth"
6:15PM - "Jack of All Sports"
6:30PM - "Football Thrills"
6:45PM - "Renick Reporting"
7:00PM - "Greatest Drama"
7:15PM - "Let's Go Fishing"
7:30PM - "Doug Edwards" (aka "Doug Edwards with the News)
7:45PM - "Eddie Fisher" (aka "Coke Time with Eddie")
8:00PM - "Mama"
8:30PM - "I Got Secret" (aka "I've Got a Secret")
9:00PM - "Playhouse Stars"
9:30PM - "Mr. McNutley" (Meet Mr. McNutley)
10:00PM - Boxing
10:45PM - Old News Reel
11:00PM - News - Weather
11:15PM - "Topper"
11:45PM - Wrestling
Midnight - Wrestling sign off
Saturday December 12, 1953:
1:00PM - "Roy Rogers" (aka "The Roy Rogers Show")
1:30PM - "Capt. Hartz" (aka "The Adventures of Capt. Hartz")
1:45PM - "Cartoonville"
2:00PM - "Talent Ranch"
3:00PM - "Man of Year" (aka "Man of the Year". Special, search for person who effected the news the most (for good or evil) in 1953)
4:00PM - "Mr. Wizard" (aka "Watch Mr. Wizard")
4:30PM - "Uncle Martin"
5:00PM - "Amateur Hour" (aka "The Original Amateur Hour")
5:30PM - Sports
5:45PM - News - Weather
6:00PM - "Stu Erwin" (aka "The Trouble with Father" aka "The Stu Erwin Show")
6:30PM - "Lone Ranger" (aka "The Lone Ranger")
7:00PM - "Who Said That?" (panelists: June Lockhart, Peter Donald and Don Herbert)
7:30PM - "Two for Money" (aka "Two for the Money")
8:00PM - "Jackie Gleason" (aka "The Jackie Gleason Show")
9:00PM - "Foreign Intrigue"
9:30PM - "This Show Business" (aka "This is Show Business")
10:00PM - "Show of Shows" (aka "Your Show of Shows")
10:30PM - "Hit Parade" (aka "Your Hit Parade")
11:00PM - "Place the Face"
11:30PM - "Medallion Theater"
Midnight: Film (Leave It to the Marines, 1951)
Some of the network shows have episodes available in this section, which you may wanna check out.
As for "Charlie Farrell", the newspaper says he was a Miami night club favourite, who was featured on the piano and in vocal selections.
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Re: Miami TV schedules (WTVJ) for the week from December 6 1953 to December 12 1953 |
Very nice work. This is a newspaper site that I have found useful for the northeast coast of the US.
http://209.212.22.88/default.htm
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Re: Miami TV schedules (WTVJ) for the week from December 6 1953 to December 12 1953 |
Thank you for the link!
Been looking through that for the last half-hour...at least, I can view classic WNEW-TV schedules!
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Re: Miami TV schedules (WTVJ) for the week from December 6 1953 to December 12 1953 |
If you have any questions, I was watching from about '59 to... Oh, still am!
But its sure not as good.
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Re: Miami TV schedules (WTVJ) for the week from December 6 1953 to December 12 1953 |
...and so, WNEW, an independant station, once DuMont flagship station, broadcast the following on Thursday 11 August 1960:
7:50AM - "Call to Prayer"
8:00AM - "Ding Dong School" (ITC version?)
8:30AM - "Sandy Becker" (I wasn't alive then...which of the Sandy Becker series was it?)
9:25AM - News
9:30AM - "Topper"
10:00AM - Movie
11:25AM - News
11:30AM - "Romper Room"
12:30PM - Cartoons
1:25PM - News
1:30PM - Movie
2:55PM - News
3:00PM - "TV Reader's Digest"
3:30PM - "Doorway to Destiny" (??)
4:00PM - "Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Presents" (a worldwide syndication sensation!)
4:30PM - "Mr. District Attorney"
5:00PM - "Dateline Europe"
5:30PM - "Big Beat"
6:30PM - Cartoons
7:00PM - "Sheriff of Cochise"
7:30PM - "Rough Riders"
8:30PM - "Badge 714"
9:30PM - Wrestling
11:00PM - News
11:05PM - Movie
12:45PM - News
Why is it that "Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Presents" seems to appear everywhere on old TV schedules?
...and I finally found the Melbourne schedule for 6 November 1956:
6:00PM - "The Judy Jack Show"
6:30PM - "Jet Jackson" (episode title: "The Human Bomb")
7:00PM - News, Weather
7:15PM - "The Isador Goodman Show"
7:30PM - "Three Musketeers"
8:00PM - "Father Knows Best" (episode title: "The Mink Coat")
8:30PM - "Four Star Playhouse" (episode title: "Study in Panic")
9:00PM - "San Francisco Beat"
9:30PM - News, Weather
9:45PM - Station close
Isador Goodman was a popular pianist in Australia. He played a wide variety of styles on his show. I think Judy Jack (who hosted a kiddie show) had done some stage work, but had no film experience (No surprise there. People talk about TV hurting film, but in the 1950s there wasn't really an Australian film industry to kill, the country only producing a couple of features a year during the 1950s...Australia's film industry had died in 1940 due to WW2, and didn't recover until the 1970s, the same decade in which Australian-produced TV drama reached a new highpoint)
The US-produced offerings are interesting: "The Three Musketees" has vanished into obscurity (no surprise there), while "Four Star Playhouse" is a cult classic waiting to happen.
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Great research. I have been doing some on my own, as well, and I am fascinated that South Africa was the LAST to introduce television into their country. From what I have learned, their first broadcast was in 1976!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5g0l1VdpBU
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That's nothing...Bhutan didn't get TV until the 2000s!
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Well, it's not "nothing", but you sure got me beat! Now I have to go to Google Earth to find Bhutan. Yeah, I suck at geography.
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I didn't really mean it was "nothing", just that it was even more amazing it took Bhutan so long. Though admittedly they are an intentionally old-fashioned nation.
Using wikipedia as a guide, here are some more nation's which got TV in those ever-changing 1950s:
Poland
Argentina
Czechoslovakia (I think)
Philippines
Morocco (I think)
Monaco (I think)
Puerto Rico
Finland
Thailand (this one in particular surprises me)
East Germany
Austria
...and yet there's still others.
BTW, would anyone be interested in me posting the the TV schedules for the first week of TV in Melbourne, Australia? At first, the city had one TV station (HSV-7). A few weeks later a second station started (ABV-2). A third station (GTV-9) did some broadcasting during this period (including live coverage of the Olympics), but did not become full-time until early 1957. At first TV in the city was broadcast only in the prime-time. During 1957 this expanded to also include afternoon programming. By 1959 the schedule sometimes started as early as mid-day.
But anyway, does anyone want me to post the schedules for the first week of programming in Melbourne? (it is missing the listings for 2 of the 7 days, though).
I could also try to find some US local listings from the 1950s. I've got nothing better to do, and the sad part is that I mean that.
This post was modified by The_Emperor_Of_Television on 2013-05-23 01:52:59
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Your Highness,
Some f my friends are in your country this week on business. Do you have any suggestions for non-tourists who are like us?
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I'm not sure I understand the question. But it's an odd thing to ask me, a rather challeged person who is more-or-less forced to spend most of the day in his bedroom.
If "like us" you mean 1950s/1960s TV fans, then they're out of luck, as the only shows of that era in repeats in Australian TV are same American ones which has been repeated to death in the english-speaking world: "Bewitched", etc etc.
Americans are lucky to be able to view so many of their 1950s/1960s shows so easily on DVD, TV repeats, and on the Internet Archive/YouTube. People of countries like Australia and Canada are much less lucky.
I don't even think any telerecordings aka kinescopes remain of Melbourne-produced TV of 1956, though both HSV-7 and ABV-2 had kinescoping equipment by November 1956, comfirmed by articles in "The Age" and "The Argus" that mention them showing telerecordings of olympic events later in the day of the event...
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Me as well. Gigs are getting fewer and farther between. Ueah, sure go ahead Matt, I'm interested.
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Obviously, there were some gaps in the schedules that was probably filled with test patterns or something like that. Also, some of you will quickly notice that some of the stations have changed call-sign over the years. The source for these listings is a digital scan of page 27 of "Brooklyn Eagle" newspaper from September 29 1948.
WCBS-TV (Channel 2) (CBS)
1:20PM - "Misses Goes a-shopping"
1:50PM - Baseball, Dodgers vs. Boston Braves
6:15PM - Music, Program Preview, Weather Report
6:30PM - "Lucky Pup"
6:45PM - Film Short
7:00PM - "The Bob Howard Show"
7:15PM - "Places, Please"
7:30PM - Television News
7:45PM - "Face the Music"
8:00PM - "Kobbs Korner"
8:30PM - "Winner Take All"
9:00PM - "Theater of the Air" (film, "Doughnuts and Society", 1936)
10:15PM - Newsreel
WNBT (Channel 4)(NBC)
5:30PM - "Howdy Doody"
7:15PM - "Paris Cavalcade of Fashions"
7:30PM - "Musical Miniatures"
7:40PM - "Girl of the Week"
7:50PM - Newsreel Theater
8:00PM - Film
8:15PM - "The Nature of Things" (with Dr. Marshall)
8:30PM - "The Ted Steele Show"
9:00PM - "The Bob Smith Show"
9:30PM - Sign-off
WABD (Channel 5) (DuMont)
6:00PM - "Small Fry Club"
6:30PM - "Russ Hodges Scoreboard"
6:45PM - "The Alan Dale Show"
7:00PM - "Birthday Party"
7:30PM - "Camera Headlines"
7:45PM - Film short
8:00PM - "Photographic Horizons"
8:30PM - "The Laytons"
9:00PM - "Boxing from Jamaica Arena"
WJZ-TV (Channel 7) (ABC)
5:30PM - "Cartoon Teletales"
7:00PM - "News and Views"
7:15PM - "The Fiztgeralds"
7:30PM - "Critics at Large"
8:00PM - "Gay Nineties Revue"
8:30PM - Film ("America's Wonderland")
8:45PM - "Three About Town"
9:00PM - "Wrestling"
WPIX (Channel 11) (then-independent, current an affiliate of The CW)
5:00PM - News
5:05PM - "Pixie Playtime"
5:45PM - "Comics on Parade"
6:00PM - "Records"
7:00PM - News
7:05PM - "Edgar's Teen Age School of Charm"
7:30PM - "Telepix Newsreel"
7:40PM - "Reel and Rifle Club"
8:00PM - "Voice of the People"
9:05PM - "Harness Racing from Roosevelt Raceway"
11:00PM - Telepix Newsreel
WATV (channel 13) (then-independent, now PBS)
2:45PM - Music and announcements
3:00PM - Feature film
4:00PM - Western Feature
5:30PM - "Mystery Mountain" (chapter 2)
5:50PM - "Camera Highlights"
Lately I've been compiling Melbourne station ABV-2's schedule for 1956...it pathetic. But they improved. Their 1959 schedules actually look VERY GOOD. Lots of variety in terms of shows and also lots of variety shows. I do hope to see some of them some day. By comparison 1956 has little variety in terms of shows (too many documentaries), and very few variety shows (all imports). The "highlight" of the schedules are "Life with Elizabeth" and "Frankie Laine Time" (syndicated version). Now, I like Betty White and Frankie Laine as much as the next guy, but it's a bad sign when "Life with Elizabeth" was the tempting thing they could offer. "Frankie Laine Time" wasn't bad, but filmed variety series always lacked the "punch" and ever-unpredictable nature of the live or kinescoped shows. "Sherlock Holmes" (1954 version) was also on the schedule and I hear it wasn't bad. Got it on DVD but haven't watched it yet.
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Jun 13, 2013 11:13pm |
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Some additional countries which got TV in those modern 1950s:
Switzerland (regular transmissions began 1953)
Algeria (I think)
Cyprus (starting 1957)
Chile (I think, around 1957?)
Hong Kong (starting 1957)
I've been creating lots of Wikipedia pages for Australian TV shows of the 1950s, including these pages I made during June (among others):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Party
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Toppanos
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shirley_Abicair_Show
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_O%27Hagan_Sings
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juke_Box_Saturday_Night
Here's are some clips from December 1960 of a Australian "Bandstand"-style shows called "Six O'Clock Rock", which featured rock and pop artists lip-syncing their hits while teenagers in the studio danced to them:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gc0Tw12HbcE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abMjlrtBkw0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNNIPJ0l4wA
I think these clips are OK to link to, considering Australia's (I think) 50-year copyright terms for TV episodes.
Classic Schedule for Pittsburgh station WDTV (missing their daytime programming), the station was largely a DuMont affiliate but also carried programs from the other networks:
Friday 7 November 1952 schedule:
5:00PM - "E. Z. C. Ranch Gang"
5:30PM - "Cisco Kid"
6:00PM - "Video Adventures"
6:30PM - "Ed Wood. News" (obviously not the "Plan 9" guy. This listing almost made me laugh)
6:45PM - "Pitt Parade"
6:55PM - "Viz Quiz"
7:00PM - "Captain Video and His Video Rangers"
7:30PM - "Time Out"
7:45PM - "Camel News Caravan"
8:00PM - "Mama"
8:30PM - "Gulf Playhouse"
9:00PM - "Life Begins at Eighty"
9:30PM - "Files of Jeffrey Jones"
10:00PM - "Twenty Questions"
10:30PM - "Down You Go"
11:00PM - "The World Tonight"
11:15PM - "Encore Theatre"
12:30AM - "Sports Show Final"
12:35AM - "Martin Kane, Private Eye"
1:05AM - "Swing Shift Theatre"
2:20AM - 7:00AM - "Swing Shift Theatre"
I admit the scans of the newspaper only list the programs in prime-time, but nevertheless would anyone like me to post more schedules for this station? Also, I've honestly never heard of "The Files of Jeffrey Jones", probably because it is before my time, but likely also because it wasn't a famous show to begin with. Does anyone remember it? Any memories you'd like to share about any of the programs on the schedule?
There's a fun clip of 1970 Swedish television on YouTube I'd like to link to, but I don't think I'm allowed to post the link, as the television show is still under copyright. It consists of singer Anni-Frid Lyngstad (aka "Frida") singing "Mad About the Boy" (in English). There's another fun clip (also from 1970) of the same pretty singer doing "Baby Love" (in Swedish), while two men do some very strange "dancing" behind her! I think they were trying to spoof the Supremes or something like that. Actually there's a lot of cool footage like that on YouTube.
This post was modified by The_Emperor_Of_Television on 2013-06-14 06:12:56
This post was modified by The_Emperor_Of_Television on 2013-06-14 06:13:58
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Jun 13, 2013 11:24pm |
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I'd love to see the "Ed Wood News"...but only if the Plan 9 man did it, though! Can you imagine? "There's a news flash just in from up there...or from out there...but maybe in there! It's the most fantastic story I've ever heard"
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Jun 13, 2013 11:47pm |
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Ed Wood did do a few TV pilots, so maybe in an alternate universe he did a newscast too!
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He made some TV commercials, too. They're on YouTube I believe.
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